Chapter 7: The Road To Revolution

Question 0

What governmental system is where all citizens put aside their personal interests for the public good?

Answer 0

Republicanism

Question 1

After the seven years war, who was the master of North America?

Answer 1

Britain

Question 2

What were the Whig ideas?

Answer 2

The monarch’s power over electing reps in parliament was a threat to liberty, against corruption

Question 3

Which colony was formally founded by the British gov?

Answer 3

Georgia

Question 4

What is mercantilism?

Answer 4

Colonies export raw materials to motherland

Question 5

What furnished products were essentially to the mother country?

Answer 5

Tobacco, sugar, ship masts

Question 6

What did the navigation law of 1650 state?

Answer 6

All goods to and from colonies had to be on British vessels, all EU goods to America had to stop in Britain first

Question 7

What caused the currency shortage in America?

Answer 7

Importing more from Britain than exporting

Question 8

How did Americans pay back the debt from the currency shortage?

Answer 8

They engaged in sketchy trade with Spanish and French

Question 9

What did the colonial legislatures start making because of the currency shortage?

Answer 9

Paper money

Question 10

What were the american benefits of the mercantile system?

Answer 10

London paid bounties to colonial producers of ship parts, Virginia tobacco planters had monopoly, colonists get protection